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    Revert "rxrpc: Allow failed client calls to be retried" · e122d845
    David Howells authored
    The changes introduced to allow rxrpc calls to be retried creates an issue
    when it comes to refcounting afs_call structs.  The problem is that when
    rxrpc_send_data() queues the last packet for an asynchronous call, the
    following sequence can occur:
    
     (1) The notify_end_tx callback is invoked which causes the state in the
         afs_call to be changed from AFS_CALL_CL_REQUESTING or
         AFS_CALL_SV_REPLYING.
    
     (2) afs_deliver_to_call() can then process event notifications from rxrpc
         on the async_work queue.
    
     (3) Delivery of events, such as an abort from the server, can cause the
         afs_call state to be changed to AFS_CALL_COMPLETE on async_work.
    
     (4) For an asynchronous call, afs_process_async_call() notes that the call
         is complete and tried to clean up all the refs on async_work.
    
     (5) rxrpc_send_data() might return the amount of data transferred
         (success) or an error - which could in turn reflect a local error or a
         received error.
    
    Synchronising the clean up after rxrpc_kernel_send_data() returns an error
    with the asynchronous cleanup is then tricky to get right.
    
    Mostly revert commit c038a58c.  The two API
    functions the original commit added aren't currently used.  This makes
    rxrpc_kernel_send_data() always return successfully if it queued the data
    it was given.
    
    Note that this doesn't affect synchronous calls since their Rx notification
    function merely pokes a wait queue and does not refcounting.  The
    asynchronous call notification function *has* to do refcounting and pass a
    ref over the work item to avoid the need to sync the workqueue in call
    cleanup.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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